Cross Out The Eyes Lyrics - Full Collapse - Thursday

Let's call this the quiet city: 

Where screams are felt as a wave of stoplights 

Drive through the the streets as gunshots punctuate the night 

The sides we take divide us from our faith 

And the morning dove gets caught in the telephone wire 

Asleep you set the fire in your own house 

And the night was a knife that cut 

And I'm paralyzed 

Cross out the eyes 

Blur all the lines 

Tearing this canvas from the wall 

We crossed out the eyes 

Put lines through these cries 

We pulled all the leaves from the trees that fall 

A silent dance that we did into this hospital bed 

Hear voices from another room 

"It happens all the time" 

But July in the sand 

Then the leaves fall down 

And counting down our days to live 

Drain the blood from this valentine. 

"We can rise on the wings of the dove 

See blue skies getting caught in the trail of all this smoke 

We can rise like candles in the dark, yours always" 

and an envelope marked with your new address 

It was the first time face to face 

I'm crossing the line 

Talking to the other side of death 

Hearing the words that choke memories into flat lines 

I'm calling your name hoping for something to wash these dreams of you away 

Our fence was blown down in a winter storm and this field 

Stretched out of this world into the sound of a trace of blood in a love song 

What can we do to put a stop to the coming white days? 

I'm hoping the snow will push these dreams of you away